Professional Practice

Professional Standards

As Paramedics, we follow these practice standards:


Service to the Public

The paramedic uses a patient-focused approach to provide efficient/effective quality patient care in situations of illness, injury, or in the process of dying.

Professional Responsibility and Accountability

  • accountable to the public, the employer and the profession


  • responsible for ensuring that practice and conduct meets requirements of policies, standards, clinical practice guidelines and legislation relevant to the practice setting


  • primarily responsible for their capacity to practice



    • Ethics

    The paramedic understands, promotes and upholds the ethical standards of the paramedic profession. These standards meet the public’s needs and expectations with regard to how patient care will be rendered.

    Continuing Competency

    Each paramedic possesses and continually acquires psychomotor, cognitive and affective competencies relevant to the practice setting.

    Performance

    Each paramedic bases practice on paramedic science considering clinical evidence, expert opinion and personal experience.